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The automated teller machines in Vatican City show this screen when awaiting a card:
Could someone, quaeso, break this down word by word? There are a number of things here that I find puzzling or ...
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What I currently have for this is probably a literal translation:
In amor cum haec lingua cado
Thank you 🙏
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What is the most appropriate translation for 'folk music' in Latin?
I have encountered the following possibilities:
pleb musicorum
musica pagana
musica vulgaris
musica plebis
musica popularis
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The abbot Berno of Reichenau, in the opening sentence of his Prologus in Tonarium, some time between 1021 and 1036, called himself the following:
licet parvus meritis, servus tamen Dei Genitricis ...
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In modern Greek, a word like ευχαριστώ is pronounced like "ef-." The combinations ευ and αυ sometimes have the upsilon pronounced like β and sometimes like φ. (I'm not sure how variable it ...
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Cdl. Cajetan's early 16th cen. commentary on an article of St. Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica:
adhuc Romana Ecclesia coram Summo Pontifice non utitur [organum].
until now the Roman Church does not ...
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I am currently studying the declensions for nouns (currently on the 2nd one) and saw this difference.
amīcōs, fīliōs, agrōs
VS
dōna
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I'm an avid follower of the TV-show "Game of Thrones", and wonder what a Latin translation of the Stark's families motto — "Winter is Coming" — would be?
It's used in the form of a ...
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Is there a Latin phrase similar to the English "well done!" to be used to congratulate someone for achieving something?
Translating from English, one might expect bene factum! or bene fecisti! or ...
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Londinium, Britannia, 284 AD. The military commander Carausius is leading a movement to take Britannia out of the Imperium Romanum. He thinks there is a conspiracy between locals and foreigners to ...
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So I bought a Greek bible and I’m not sure whether it is Koine or Modern Greek. Could someone please help me out? Thanks.
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I am looking at getting a tattoo with my best friend ( both female)
Have been looking at words to describe friendship/ sisterhood/ soul mates.
Ideally a sentence or phrase.
For example
'Not sisters by ...
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I have a German Christmas song of the 16th century, which is bilingual, German–Latin. The lyrics go as follows (I translated the German parts into English):
O how beautiful the group of ...
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Someone told me these were Caesar's actual last words. Google confirms this. But I can't find an explanation for what looks to me like weird grammar.
First of all, shouldn't "Brutus" be &...
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For example evangelium, which in Greek, and hence in Classical, has an ambisyllabic1 /w:/, giving /ew.wa-/. How are this and similar words pronounced in Roman Ecclesiastical? Is it /eva-/, /evva-/, /...
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I am interested in the etymology of words in Latin. Is there a resource available that could help me determine if a word is specifically from Old, New or Vulgar Latin etc. according to a time it is ...
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The distinction between shared ownership and private ownership of individuals is well illustrated in Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style:
If Jeanette has some pencils and ...
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